The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-08-25

down 70 some q the lower valleys Of ths'
Arthur started to catch up our ponies. but
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you meanf THERE'S a,pertect pandemcnium
of uproar in progress" "Coms here" said
/ started toward him and was astonished
e find that q soon E: b, he'd Ia taken ss,i fen
% Wa It oiics I st an M end. Ths ruined city lay
dark and silent above. Il was like stepping
nom q building filed with humming. and
clashing machinery into the calm and silence
Of the open air. A step backward and the
:gPcrnaturs mschlery ssain rosrsd sssh.s spd %
the sky, the musketry ratified, the cannon
thundered. and the yells of the eayages rent
the air. Having. discovered that there was
dividing line between the natural and the
supernatural, we hastened to move our
b blankets i. outside Of the ghostly atmosphere e
sound, though for ought we know the
mounted Spaniard may have ridden directly
over us in his wild flight.
The next day, after some further explora::
tions, we started on our return. We halted
for the night in the little valley above the
made our camp above the spring and above
the old tunnel. We determined TO test at
this point what we had discovered below in
regard to the supernatural demonstrations
being confined within certain bounds. We.
therefore, sat up until the stars told US that
was dark and silent down in the ruined
city. We much doubted seeing anything
of . ghostly nature. However, we
arose and moved down the valley
toward our old camp. Suddenly, from
the deepest calm, came an uproar that was
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the supernatural machinery whirred and
clashed. The boom of the alarm bell dinned
our ears, lights flashed up in all parts of the
town, and q thousand cries were heard ming
ling with the discharge Of firearms: Coming
the effect a an. was stunning s%S
moment all had been calm, dark and natu-
raj; then the ghostly lights flashed through
al visible space and demoniacal sounds rent
the air.
Turning about, we found that We were
standing just opposite the mouth Of tie old
tunnel where we had twice seen the white
robed lady fall beneath the war-club of the
painted brave. A step backward, and all
was again dark and quiet. We returned to
our blankets and for long time lay awake
discussing the strange things that had be
fallen us and the fearful sights, and sounds
of the ruined city we had found in the wilds
of the Sierra Madre.
The only conclusion at which we were
able to arrive was that within certain bounds
all was charged with emanations of those
who fought and fell or were butchered in
and about the little walled city. For ages,
perhaps forever, the "blood of the slain cries
from the ground" The sights and sounds
we supposed we saw and heard probably had
no existence outside of ourselves. but were in
some mysterious way photographed upon
the brain from the essences of things that
had once been and which still impregnated
the earth, rocks, and all about the place. These
emanations, when the hour and the ele-
ments favored, took possession of our senses.
We passed from our natural state and from
the world of reality and the present into the
realms of the past and, as one in 9 trance,
saw sights and heard sounds that belonged
to by-gone times. But, be this as 1t may, ]
firmly believe that the town whose ruins we
saw was destroyed and its people massacred
exactly as depicted in our vision, or what
ever it was, even to the murder of the poor
girl near our camp. That woman did die
there we have some evidence.
Here Mr.. Farquhar handed me beauti.
fully wrought cross of gold and asked !:
What name do you find on the back Of
that?"
read-"Engracia Aguilliar."
II picked up that cross" said Farquhar,
"near the mouth of the old tunnel where
we saw the brains of the white-robed lady
dashed out. Let others think as they may,
l shall always feel that the woman whose
death scene was 80 vividly placed before us
was once the owner of this cross-was Grace
Aguilliar"